...sandy

...So there was a hurricane. Did you hear?

It started raining on Saturday.

We filled the bathtub, I washed clothes as they got dirty, anticipating days without use of my washing machine. Oh, the horror.

And then we waited. Sunday passed and it rained. Monday passed and it rained. That night we got both kids to sleep on the first floor. There are some big trees in the big woods and it was getting windy.

And it got windy. Really, really windy. We started hearing thumps. Trees falling. Big trees falling.

But the lights stayed on. Mother Nature must know how much I love doing laundry.

We woke up to a little tree across our driveway (that's our next door neighbor's house).

The first picture at the top is the street outside our neighborhood. It usually has a shoulder. It didn't anymore.

This was a house we looked at when we first started thinking about buying here. And that's a tree on its roof.

These are the roots of that little tree across our driveway. I'd guess it's about nine feet tall.

And here's the other side of the driveway.

Our family's beach house was not so lucky (our house is just off this picture in the bottom right). There was damage, but nothing that can't be fixed. Just one thing my mom didn't need to worry about right now.

A few days after the storm there was the prettiest rainbow over the Chester River on the way to Charlie's school. Mother Nature is moody.

Comments

[gabby]

so glad you are all safe and sound.
so sorry about the beach house, though.
boo hiss boo.
xoxoxo.

[Biddy]

Good grief - I had no idea that Bethany south was inundated -NJ really fell down on the job reporting wise. Who cleared the tree off your driveway? Did Ken do the "man" thing with a noisy saw?? So glad that you all came through OK.I was thrilled to see a new post --I get worried when there is a gap - way too much time on my hands! Hugs all around..

[laurie lariviere]

mother nature is moody alright, more like full blown menopause...glad you are all okay and there was no damage to your new home, hope you mom is doing okay too, hugs

[Rebecca Lovell]

I am so happy to hear that you are all okay!!! ♥

[Becky Trump]

So glad you guys are safe and sound in the big woods. That would have been scary scary!!! Your bathtub looks so pretty :)